Today, Ms. McKinney let me know that she wanted to show her kids how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations. Her class is studying animal diversity, and will be making presentations to show what they have learned. We started a new PowerPoint presentation, and went through the steps of making a title slide, adding additional slides, typing information and resizing the text boxes, adding photos from the internet, and saving the presentation. Our sample presentation was about foxes. Each step was displayed on the projector at the front of the room, and students followed along on their computers. They found fox information on a National Geographic site, conducted a web search of public domain photos, and selected a fox photo for their presentation. Students looked for copyright information and cited the photographer who took the picture they chose. It was a good basic introduction to PowerPoint. With some guidance, students should be able to build upon their new skills when they start their presentations next week.
